From World Money Laundering Report Vol. 1 No. 1
Published October 1999

Prediction: within five years, compliance will be at the centre of all financial services businesses in highly regulated markets, taking over from sales and marketing and even audit as the most important area of management of those businesses.

Welcome to the first edition of World Money Laundering Report. In this issue, we have set the tone for the way that WMLR will work with you to raise the awareness of money laundering related issues in your organisation.

The key to understanding the detection and prevention of money laundering is to keep it simple. The BASICS column explains the terminology of laundering and the laws, why things are done and everything everyone needs to understand so that the hows and whys of money laundering prevention systems make sense.

What can a government department do when even major newspapers can't get its name right? Jim Sloan, FinCEN's new director, has walked into a situation where the USA's FIU has an identity crisis as well as a range of other problems. And FinCEN is far more than an FIU simpliciter